every moment that passes has a message but we tend to distort the guide of the moment to the tune of our thinking that it becomes irrelevant..we misinterpret individuality then but we seldom realize..but the message remains the same..we need to go beyond..alas! we seldom go..

The best way to know the self is feeling oneself at the moments of reckoning. The feeling of being alone, just with your senses, may lead you to think more consciously. More and more of such moments may sensitize ‘you towards you’, towards others. We become regular with introspection and retrospection. We get ‘the’ gradual connect to the higher self we may name Spirituality or God or just a Humane Conscious. We tend to get a rhythm again in life. We need to learn the art of being lonely in crowd while being part of the crowd. A multitude of loneliness in mosaic of relations! One needs to feel it severally, with conscience, before making it a way of life. One needs to live several such lonely moments. One needs to live severallyalone.

Tuesday, 7 February 2017

WHY DONALD TRUMP IS TAKING ON US JUDICIARY

US President is disgusted and
he letting the world known the root-cause of his anger, the US Judiciary, that
has stayed the Trump administration’s controversial travel ban order on people
from seven Muslim countries, Syria, Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Yemen and Sudan
for 90 days. His order also suspended the US refugee programme for 120 days and
put an indefinite ban on Syrian refugees.

Trump said he was doing so to
prevent entry of terrorists in the US but it seems no one is buying that.

First, the New York District
Judge on January 28 had partially stayed Trump’s executive order barring
deportations already arrived on the US soil with a valid visa. Then on January
3, the Seattle District Judge, though temporary, put a complete, nationwide
stay on the executive order.

How desperate is the Trump
administration about its travel ban plans becomes evident from the fact that
the US Justice Department approached the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals late in
the night, after midnight, against the Seattle District Judge order. But even
that court refused to grant Trump administration any immediate respite till the
next hearing that is scheduled for today.

Meanwhile, protests again
Trump’s executive order spreading nationwide and in many other countries and
the number of protesters is swelling, including the corporate America,
information-technology companies and some Republican senators like John McCain,
Lindsey Graham and more importantly Mitch McConnell, the Majority Leader of the
US Senate, who said that in case of an adverse court ruling, the Congress would
not help Trump with his travel ban plans.

It has left Trump fuming and
he has chosen his favourite platform Twitter to let the world know his anger
and he began his onslaught with a ‘MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!’ tweet on February
4 that followed five more tweets on the issue on February 5 and two on February
6. He has continued with his agenda and today tweeted to say that 'courts must
act fast' on his travel ban order and the day is not over yet. Also, Trump added
today that he was ready to go to the Supreme Court to get his travel ban order
implemented.

THE HIDDEN AGENDA?

According to a Washington
Post report, the Trump administration has inherited 103 judicial vacancies in
the federal and district courts from the Obama administration. It is almost
double to what Barack Obama had got, 54 vacancies to fill judges of his choice.

What Barack Obama had
inherited from his predecessor George Bush was a Republic legacy with majority
of Republican nominated judges in 10 of 13 circuit courts as per a USA Today
report. It took Barack Obama eight years to replace the Republican choices with
Democratic nominees but his progress was halted midway in 2015 when the
Republicans took the US Senate control. The Obama administration blamed the
Senate Republicans for deliberately obstructing the process.

Nominating judges in the US
courts has always been the prerogative of the US President and his party and so
being majority of Democrat nominees or Republican nominees is a natural things
and we should not look beyond that.

But the perception about
Donald Trump changes that normal. The Washington Post report writes that 'Trump
has vowed to choose ideologues in the mold of the late Supreme Court justice
Antonin Scalia, a conservative icon — a prospect that has activists on the
right giddy'. Antonin Scalia, a Ronald Reagan appointee to the US Supreme
Court, was seen as a legal luminary but with a conservative mindset who vocally
opposed gay rights and abortion.

Scalia's death last year had
given Obama an opportunity to tilt the 5-4 conservative majority in the US
Supreme Court in favour of a 5-4 liberal majority but the Senate Republicans
didn't allow Obama's nominee Merrick Garland.

And it seems Trump has
started giving shape to his plans to reshape the US judiciary. On January 31,
Trump nominated appellate judge Neil Gorsuch to fill Scalia's vacancy. If
confirmed, Gorsuch will again tilt the 5-4 majority in favour of the conservatives.

TRAVEL BAN A CHANCE?

The way Trump is criticising
the US Judiciary on putting a stay on his travel ban executive order, it seems
it can be the beginning of the process to rapidly fill the US Judiciary with
more conservative judges who are likely to have a favourable view of Trump's
administration conservative policies like travel ban or stopping funds to the
NGOs working for abortion.

Trump thinks the present US Judicial
System is like 'that of a third-world country' and rigged, a CNN report says, "Folks,
we're living in a third-world country. This has never happened before. This is
the lowest point in terms of our judicial system. This is the lowest point in
the history of our country. Remember that. And when I talk about a rigged
system, let's see what happens. Let's see what happens."

His tweets say it all, his
disdain for the US Judiciary. He finds the judges’ decision to put a stay on
his executive order ridiculous. He is blaming them to make the US unsafe by
allowing terrorists and dangerous people to pour in. It is as if denouncing all
the systems that existed in the US before Trump who want to change it all. Probably, this is his way to initiate ‘making
America great again’!

And a more 'likeminded and
amenable judiciary' can be a great help here, especially when the US under
Trump is going to see a flurry of lawsuits against Trump's decisions that his
rivals see as controversial. That is bound to happen as Trump's victory has
bitterly divided America and he took oath with historically low approval
ratings amid nationwide protests.

Barring few, Republicans who
control both Houses of the US Congress, have backed Trump's travel ban and
judges' adverse views on it may propel them to have more likeminded,
conservative judges in the judicial circuits. True that will take some time but
then Trump is ready to move to the Supreme Court and he may expect a respite
there with a 5-4 conservative majority once Neil Gorsuch is approved.

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